Other - Innovations/Changes: Teaching/Learning Models – current and proposed
CurrentSchool Structures
Teaching/Learning 21stCentury
Our Proposed Innovations
Teacher-centered, fragmented curriculum, students working in isolation, memorizing facts.
Students participate in field studies through real-life, relevant, project-based 21st century education.
Students engage in the study of marine environments and perform inquiry-based laboratory activities – record activities with digital video cameras, perform on-site research or note-taking with electronic tablets, communicate via medium of their choosing.
Memorization of discrete facts – low level Bloom’s Taxonomy Learning by lecture
Application of knowledge – high level Bloom’s Taxonomy Constructing own knowledge
Students generate questions, form hypotheses and use student-collected data along with extensive databanks from Project O and enter information in an electronic chart, create related graphs, analyze the information and communicate their knowledge on the collaborative web site and electronic portfolios.
Textbook-driven
Digital resources available as appropriate
Mobile laptop lab and tablets are available for students to research, compose, and analyze information. Wireless technology enables them to work in their environment.
Learners work in isolation – classroom within 4 walls
Learners work collaboratively with classmates and others – share with the Global Classroom
Students meet with school partners at each other’s schools. Field experts serve as career role models. Sites include: water treatment facility, waste water treatment facility, fish lift, hydroelectric plant, and various mill sites related to the LIS watershed. Online community adds to the global classroom environment
Teacher-centered: teacher is center of attention and provider of information
Student-centered: teacher is facilitator/coach.
Student teams conduct a field study of the beach/marsh/rocky intertidal zones and document on site using appropriate technology.
Project O staff work in student teams and advise students throughout the learning process. Students work with experts in the field. Advisor/ advisee model
Prescribe focus – everyone’s outcome the same
Taps into multiple intelligences and individual abilities
Electronic portfolios document student growth. Students tap into individual strengths and address weakness. Capstone
Little intrinsic student motivation.
Students and teachers have mutually respectful relationship as co-learners; students are highly motivated.
Teachers integrate interactive whiteboards in the delivery of lesson content, use student response systems to determine comprehension and modify lessons based on feedback. New technologies motivate and excite students toward high achievement.
Other - Innovations/Changes: Teaching/Learning Models – current and proposed
Project O staff work in student teams and advise students throughout the learning process. Students work with experts in the field. Advisor/ advisee model